You are trying to have a rational discussion with a bitcoin fanboy. It is like talking to a HFT proponent about the benefits of increased liquidity in the market via millisecond trades of already liquid stock.

Don't get me wrong, I am sure there are plenty of people dealing with bitcoin for what it is. A speculate "stock" with limited daily volume. But they don't go round ranting about it much.

For what? What would a luna base be good for? Please don't say He3....

The difference is that he is actually doing it.

The conclusion is not pointless. If you want to do proper risk analisis of something you need to know the facts. The base rate of cancer outside genetic and environmental effects is a pretty important data point.

Err aging is a fairly big one as well. Our bodies are simply not programmed to live forever. I however intend to live forever or die trying. This would require some pretty fantastic breakthroughs in the next few decades.

You do realize that many/most of the new planes are impossible to fly without the computer right? We put flesh bags in the loop out of tradition and romanticism.

It a romantic idea that we are better than machines for many tasks. The only thing holding it back right now are old planes with little automation, and Romanticism.

For military applications they don't even need to all that good. Just not pass out in high g.

You know what else the IARC suspects *may* be carcinogenic without any *data* whatsoever? Everything. God dam Everything.

No they don't. I know a few test pilots. They know real life flesh and blood pilots days are numbered.

No we can't. Not even close.

Sure as hell better than humans.

In many countries it is illegal to provide goods and services below cost. The reason is that this was often used by large corporations to create barriers of entry to smaller entities by undercutting production cost just to run them out of business. We still see this happening a lot in some industries.

Greenpeace may have started with the boomers. But the new generation with a lot of time on their hands and rather limited experience or for that matter education, on how things really work. I remember feeling all indignant about big industry and "corporations", but i kept reading and soon learnt the reality of the situation. After all I was enjoying a rather nice lifestyle because of of big industry and corporations.

I mean how many greenpeace people with iPhones, or worse driving around protesting all the time on the unemployment benefit (know a few that did that in NZ) do you know.

I once worked in the field. I have published more than him, i have more citations than him. Turns out if you want to be respected in science you need to do more than good PR, many of us don't like this guy, but understand the PR angle, and why you can't really fire him.

I suggest you Google him, and note the lack of contributions.

I do have to pay for serious bandwidth. A hell of a lot more than 1Mbps too. Now sort out the licences...... have fun with that. End of the day, you won't save a dam thing. Unless you have your lawyers on retainer and they don't already have something to do.